ROSETTA'S STONE (2015), a collaborative work about a professor’s descent into Alzheimer's disease and its effect on his student, was created by a team of artists in the United States and Norway: composers John G. Bilotta and Jostein Stalheim and librettists Oded Ben-Horin and John F. McGrew. In Rosetta's Stone, the professor’s mind is deconstructed into a cerebral café of brainy baristas -- Amygdala, Brain Stem, Cerebellum, Cortex, Hippocampus, and Thalamus -- in scenes that alternate with his pupil's poignant musical responses. "Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth." (R. W. Emerson)